Star Wars Battlefront is enjoyable enough – even if it’s only just becoming the game we hoped for via DLC – but it will always leave fans wondering what might have been. That’s because LucasArts cancelled the hotly anticipated Battlefront 3 as it neared launch, ending our dreams of battles where you could fly from planetary surfaces to outer space. We’ll never know whether Battlefront 3 would have been successful, but we do have a glimpse of what it looked like thanks to gameplay footage from a 2008 build of the game.

The video reveals a small portion of Battlefront 3’s story campaign, as Old Republic heroes X1 and X2 arrive on Tatooine for a new assignment. Even considering the alpha build and dated 2008 graphics, it doesn’t look like much at first. The voice acting is incredibly basic, while the ship interiors are drab and dreary compared to other Star Wars titles.

Then X1 and X2 fly out of the hangar on their star fighters. Shortly afterwards, they head to Tatooine’s surface without encountering a single loading screen. And all those old wounds opened again.

A second video picks up where the first left off, following the heroes as they respond to a Tusken Raider attack. Here the build’s alpha status becomes more apparent, with literal sound effects declaring they are placeholders. Yet the larger scope of the missions is far more apparent, emphasized by the giant spaceships visible in the distant Tantooine sky.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2016/09/19/battlefront-3-gameplay-footage-emerges-from-the-mists-of-2008/feed/0Fan-made Star Wars Battlefront 3 game heading to Steam as a free downloadhttp://www.vg247.com/2016/06/04/fan-made-star-wars-battlefront-3-game-is-heading-to-steam-as-a-free-download/
http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/04/fan-made-star-wars-battlefront-3-game-is-heading-to-steam-as-a-free-download/#respondSat, 04 Jun 2016 16:21:26 +0000https://www.vg247.com/?p=585773Galaxy in Turmoil, the fan-made project based on the cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3, is heading to Steam.

Fan-made Star Wars Battlefront 3 game is heading to Steam as a free download

Yes, you read that right. The project was given the thumbs up from Valve and will be distributed through Steam.

Since this is a free download, the Russia-based developer, Frontwire Studios, said this should keep Disney’s lawyers from banging on the door. It’s still possible a take down order could issued, but studio president Tony Romanelli feels with Valve allowing the game on its service, the company “clearly lacks that same concern.”

“After ongoing discussion between Valve Representatives and myself, Valve/Steam has agreed to ship Galaxy in Turmoil to it’s millions of users for free. While this is undoubtedly a big step and accomplishment for Frontwire Studios itself, it’s an even bigger step for you, the community,” said Romanelli.

“By Steam agreeing to ship Galaxy in Turmoil we are not only adding more validation and awareness to the project by opening up the game to a whole new audience, we’re also cementing Frontwire Studios’ reputation as an up and coming developer with the opportunity to now publish our games on Steam in the future.

Formerly known as “Project Rebuild (FRD) BF3″, the studio has plans to release free DLC for the Unreal Engine 4 title in the future.

You can get a look at the game’s Steam page above, but as PCgamesN notes, it doesn’t seem to be live just yet because the game is not ready at the moment.

Star Wars Battlefront 3 was in development at Free Radical, and was 99% finished before Lucasarts cancelled the title.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/04/fan-made-star-wars-battlefront-3-game-is-heading-to-steam-as-a-free-download/feed/0Star Wars: Galaxy in Turmoil is a fan made re-make of canned Battlefront 3http://www.vg247.com/2016/03/17/star-wars-galaxy-in-turmoil-fan-mod-remake/
http://www.vg247.com/2016/03/17/star-wars-galaxy-in-turmoil-fan-mod-remake/#respondThu, 17 Mar 2016 14:42:11 +0000https://www.vg247.com/?p=574842Star Wars: Galaxy in Turmoil is fan made project in the works, based on what Star Wars Battlefront 3 “was meant to be,” according to the creators.

The project has only been in development since the start of March, so what you’ll see on Moddb is super early. Keep that in mind when looking over or trying the current build. There are also some screenshots of the project’s current state through the link.

You can help out with the project if you like. A volunteer link is posted on the Star Wars: Galaxy in Turmoil.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2016/03/17/star-wars-galaxy-in-turmoil-fan-mod-remake/feed/0Star Wars Battlefront 3 footage emerges from apparent leakhttp://www.vg247.com/2016/01/21/star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-emerges-from-apparent-leak/
http://www.vg247.com/2016/01/21/star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-emerges-from-apparent-leak/#respondThu, 21 Jan 2016 08:43:54 +0000https://www.vg247.com/?p=565858Someone claims to have a working build of Star Wars Battlefront 3, footage of which have found their way online.

Footage from Star Wars Battlefront 3, the long-in-development shooter by Free Radical later to be canned by LucasArts, appears online every few months. A chunk of it leaked last year, and the year before.

Today, a Reddit thread was created by a user who claims to have a working build of the game. Being an in-development build, it only works on Xbox 360 dev kits, and other test kits.

The Reddit user first made some download links available to all, though these have since been removed. According to them, modded Xbox 360s that can use RGLoader can also run the code.

What remained, however, was various videos, even one showing the console boot-up and game start. There’s no way to embed them, and they’re very short and not in the best quality, but well worth a look nonetheless.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2016/01/21/star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-emerges-from-apparent-leak/feed/0Watch how ambitious cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 3 looked likehttp://www.vg247.com/2015/10/21/watch-how-ambitious-cancelled-star-wars-battlefront-3-looked-like/
http://www.vg247.com/2015/10/21/watch-how-ambitious-cancelled-star-wars-battlefront-3-looked-like/#respondWed, 21 Oct 2015 08:08:56 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=553531There was an ambitious third entry in the Star Wars Battlefront franchise that never saw the light of day. Here’s some footage from it.

Way before DICE started working on the new reboot of Star Wars Battlefront, Free Radical was working on another entry in the that franchise, simply titled Star Wars Battlefront 3.

That game never came out, but saw countless leaks showing many of its very impressive – even by today’s standards – features and mechanics. YouTube channel Ptoponline has a new video showing about six minutes of footage from the PC version.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2014/10/20/star-wars-battlefront-3-footage-leak/feed/0Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was live streamed today on Twitchhttp://www.vg247.com/2013/05/04/star-wars-battlefront-3-live-streamed-today-on-twitch-re-watch-at-leisure/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/04/star-wars-battlefront-3-live-streamed-today-on-twitch-re-watch-at-leisure/#commentsSat, 04 May 2013 19:44:25 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=364010A Star Wars: Battlefront 3 live stream on Twitch just ended, apparently, courtesy of Past to Present Online, which specializes in “specializes in the coverage and streaming of pre-release games, betas, and cancelled projects,” according to Game Informer.

Battlefront 3 was in the works at Free Radical, until it was canceled for financial reasons, according to co-founder Steve Ellis who said the game was 99% complete at the time of canning. Others have refuted this claim, stating it was 75% finished, and cancelled due to constantly missed deadlines.

Free Radical co-founder David Doak said back in May 2012 that Battlefront 3 may not have been complete when it was cancelled, but it was “very far from a car crash and had interesting ideas,” before “psychopaths” at LucasArts killed the project

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/04/star-wars-battlefront-3-live-streamed-today-on-twitch-re-watch-at-leisure/feed/1Star Wars: Battlefront 3 LucasArts footage emergeshttp://www.vg247.com/2013/04/11/star-wars-battlefront-3-lucasarts-footage-emerges/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/11/star-wars-battlefront-3-lucasarts-footage-emerges/#commentsThu, 11 Apr 2013 07:26:27 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=357232Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was said to be coming next from LucasArts after digital shooter Star War: First Assault tested the waters. Both games have now been canned, but gameplay footage of the new Battlefront 3 has emerged in the wild.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/11/star-wars-battlefront-3-lucasarts-footage-emerges/feed/3Star War: Battlefront 3 was ‘mediocre’, 99% complete claim is ‘bullshit’, says sourcehttp://www.vg247.com/2012/12/04/star-war-battlefront-3-was-mediocre-99-complete-claim-is-bullshit-says-source/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/04/star-war-battlefront-3-was-mediocre-99-complete-claim-is-bullshit-says-source/#commentsTue, 04 Dec 2012 10:54:01 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=320819Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was a mediocre game that was around 75% complete when it was binned, an anonymous ex-LucasArts employee has revealed, stating that the game was canned as developer Free Radical “Continually missed dates and deliveries.” The statement follows claims from Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis that the game was 99% complete and was binned for financial reasons. Get both sides of the story below.

Ellis made his claim last month, in which he stated, “We had a 99% finished game that just needed bug fixing for release. It should have been our most successful game, but it was cancelled for financial reasons. I’m happy that people did at least get to see what we were working on and share the team’s enthusiasm for it.”

However, an anonymous ex-LucasArts tipster has told Gamespot that the Star Wars: Battlefront 3 project was mediocre at best, that Free Radical “misrepresented” its progress on the project, and that the game “tested poorly with no focus on action”, suggesting that the title was not living up to LucasArts’ expectations. The studio’s difficult time with PS3 shooter Haze caused the publisher to grow even more wary of Free Radical’s abilities.

The source stated, “This 99 percent complete stuff is just bullshit. A generous estimate would be 75 percent of a mediocre game.

“We were desperate for a next-gen follow-up to Battlefront (the claim that the project was sabotaged for financial reasons is ludicrous. The franchise was a huge money maker at the time). When Free Radical continually missed dates and deliveries, [LucasArts] made many ‘good will’ whole or partial milestone payments to keep the project going.

“At this point, I felt that Free Radical was akin to a Ponzi scheme where time and budget from the next game was being used to finish the previous, late, title.”

The project apparently collapsed when it became clear that Free Radical would miss the game’s April 2009 launch, compounded further by staff cuts. The studio closed shortly after the game was eventually cancelled.

Eurogamer reports that Ellis replied swiftly with his version of events, and revealed that LucasArts already had Free Radical in the frame for a fourth Battlefront title, stressing again that the Battlefront 3 was near completion.

“I want to set the record straight because a lot of people worked very hard on BF3 (and BF4 [which LucasArts had already asked Free Radical to plan]) and they don’t deserve their efforts to be distorted in this way.

“From the personal tone of the comments it is clear that the source is someone whom I personally dealt with. It’s unfortunate that they are making this kind of criticism while choosing to remain anonymous.

“In 2008, LucasArts was a company with problems. The entire management team who were there when we started working together were replaced in the first half of 2008. They made mass redundancies on their internal teams. They cancelled a number of projects. Then our milestones started being rejected.

“We were told (and it seemed wholly believable given the aforementioned facts) that they could not afford to continue development of both BF3 and its sequel, so they negotiated the termination of BF4, then later BF3. There was no ‘termination for breach.’

“If the problem really was that we had failed to meet their desperate need for a new Battlefront game, you might ask why after all this time they still haven’t released a new Battlefront game using a different developer. I can only speculate.”

There you have it folks: two sides of a rather long and complicated story. What’s your opinion? Let us know below, and be sure to check out this leaked Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage from earlier this year. What do you make of it?

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/04/star-war-battlefront-3-was-mediocre-99-complete-claim-is-bullshit-says-source/feed/12Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was 99% finished, says ex-Free Radical devhttp://www.vg247.com/2012/11/30/star-wars-battlefront-3-was-99-finished-says-ex-free-radical-dev/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/30/star-wars-battlefront-3-was-99-finished-says-ex-free-radical-dev/#commentsFri, 30 Nov 2012 10:54:15 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=320107Star Wars: Battlefront 3 is a sought-after game among fans of the originals, and all of the leaked gameplay footage and rumours can do nothing to satisfy the itch. Free Radical co-founder Steve Ellis has revealed that the game was almost done before it got canned.

Speaking with gamesTM magazine – via NowGamer – “It felt like we had turned a corner as a company,” explained Ellis. “We had had a dark period during the development of Haze, we’d had problems with our tech and we’d had some growing pains as we expanded to the size we needed to be, but it really felt like we were finally coming out of the other side intact.

“We were making a game with very high ambition. You could start a battle on the ground, jump into a ship and fly into space, continuing on to dock in a capital ship and continue the battle there. We’d had to build all kinds of new tech and overcome numerous technical challenges and limitations but we had done it.

“We had a 99% finished game that just needed bug fixing for release. It should have been our most successful game, but it was cancelled for financial reasons. I’m happy that people did at least get to see what we were working on and share the team’s enthusiasm for it.”

The question is then: why did it get canned? Earlier this week we reported that Free Radical found it impossible to sign a publishing deal for Timesplitters 4. Check out what the ex-studio employees had to say here.

A massive rumor, and one not to get too excited over because – well it’s a rumor – has GameSpy accidentally outing Star Wars: Battlefront 3.

According to a fan based Battlefront 3 site, there’s a list supposedly from a program that allows you to check out the servers GameSpy host for gaming.

In a screen of the list, plain as the nose on your face, is a listing for Star Wars: Battlefront 3.

The site that posted this admits that it’s possible to fake this, but it’s there for your critiquing eye anyway.

Undoubtedly, BF3’s the game rumor that never seems to die, ya know. Last we heard, it was rumored that since Free Radical lost the rights on the game, that Rebellion took it over – this was after a former-Free Radical employee leaked game shots and Lucasarts called for the offending material to be removed.

Rebellion then announced Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron, and we have heard nothing since – until today.

We’ll shoot a mail off just in case, but if true, don’t expect Lucasarts to admit it’s real, until the firm is damn good and ready to reveal the game.

Casting director Chris Marazzo has confirmed to Battlefront 3.net that he has been working closely with Lucasarts on not only Battlefront 3, but the 2006 release of Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption.

Rumors started circulating this week regarding the project, so BF3.net contacted Marazzo and received this reply:

“Thanks for getting in touch. The Original Title was Battlefront 3 but it evolved into Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. However Battlefront 3 is also in development. It was by far the most fun and coolest casting I ever worked on.”

Marazzo also told the site that he would try and send over some Battlefront 3 storyboards “by the end of the week”. If you look at his portfolio, it states that he has “cast over 200 Commercials and various projects in NY and LA, including most recently STAR WARS: Battlefront 3 with Lucas Arts”.

Hit the links for more.

Meanwhile, we’ll contact Lucasarts and see what it has to say about all of this.

“It’s real enough, looks like a compilation of footage from sometime last year,” said the source to videogaming247, confirming that it indeed come from the alleged internal alpha meeting back in November.

The footage (below) looks really rather good, so we’re a bit gutted that Star Wars Battlefront 3 has seemingly been put on hold for the time being.